Another bitty, fragmented week, in which the realities of life intruded on the realities of work.

Still, the positives that emerged this week were good: completing the work on last year’s tax return, for instance, alongside various moments of prodding, poking, and tinkering with various software projects. Lots of comms management, too: setting up a workshop day for Week 36, fixing some issues with Concert Club and Playable City, and prototyping a new feature for the latter.

I also took the time to catch up with friends passing through London for EToo, which helped me think a little harder about a personal games project for later in the year.

On Friday morning, I met up with Michael, who I’m mentoring through Northern Media‘s CreateInnovate programme. Over the next four months, we’re going to have regular catchups about the transmedia strategy for a feature film he’s producing. (Translation: the online marketing and promotion plan.) I’m not a huge fan of “the t-word”, but it does feel somewhat appropriate in this case: the film he’s working on has some diegetic elements that would extend very nicely to the outside world. So we’re going to be spending some time thinking those through. Nice to think a bit about strategy and narrative, and we enjoyed bouncing thoughts of one another; I look forward to our future sessions.

As I type, I’m on the way back from a workshop in Sheffield – hence the late delivery of these. Still, the beginnings of a busy week – which I’ll write more about in seven days’ time.